Example sentences of "[verb] only [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Assemblies met only once a year but set up permanent executive boards . |
| 2 | Although the insider dealer himself contributes only around a tenth of that volume , he gives a clear enough signal to arbitrageurs in the market , reckons the study . |
| 3 | A DOE public information phone line , set up last year , which gives information on sulphur and nitrogen-XXXX related pollution , receives only about a dozen calls a week . |
| 4 | It says making Ingres secure involves only around a 3% addition to the product in terms of code . |
| 5 | In fact the company says that making Ingres secure involves only around a 3% addition to the product in terms of code . |
| 6 | ‘ Are accounts produced only once a year ? ’ |
| 7 | The typical pattern was for the local parties to meet only once a year in 1915 and 1916 , to re-elect their officers for another year ; agents who had enlisted were kept on the books by retaining half their normal pay , to compensate them for loss of earnings in the national interest and to keep them available for a resumption of partisanship . |
| 8 | The commission responsible for undertaking this revision was convoked only once a week by its president , Ottaviani . |
| 9 | Once she has digested the news that she is unable to conceive naturally , she will be offered IVF — with the caveat that the method has only around a 30% chance of success . |
| 10 | Thus , if Brazil was already the major producer of coffee , the state of São Paulo , which is predominantly identified with this crop in our century , as yet harvested only about a quarter of the production of Rio and at most a fifth of the entire country ; about half the production of Indonesia and only about twice as much as Ceylon , where the development of tea-culture was still so negligible that exports were not separately registered until the second half of the 1870s , and then in tiny quantities . |
| 11 | The state railways pay a user charge to the track authority , which is broadly equivalent to the charges faced by road users and covers only about a third of total infrastructure costs . |
| 12 | It 's sited only about a quarter mile from the northern boundary fence . |
| 13 | that the reference to the accounts could not be viewed accurately without viewing the statutory statement of business which filed only just a month or so back reveals a sixteen and a half billion surplus in the members premium trust fund up from twelve and a half billion at the end of proceeding year . |
| 14 | Of the many drawbacks the most ludicrous is that applications can be made only once a year at a certain time . |
| 15 | The publication day of Hank Stych 's book went unremarked in Tollemarche , mainly because the only bookseller in the town had not had time to unpack his new stock , and book reviews were featured only once a month in the Tollemarche Advent and then only in an obscure corner of an inner page . |
| 16 | The large number of members involved means that a full meeting of this board would be too cumbersome for the day-to-day administration of the IMF and so it meets only once a year , mainly to ratify any new proposals . |
| 17 | As Josh Gifford also pointed out , one root of the problem is that the Mildmay course has , until now , been used only once a year . |
| 18 | Most supervisory boards meet only twice a year . |
| 19 | Well , Mr Lockwood , all this happened only about a year ago . |
| 20 | Some large sewage works are sampled every day ; major discharges may be sampled up to thirty times a year , while some minor ones are sampled only twice a year . |
| 21 | Even a large aquarium with all possible accessories will cost only around a week to run . |
| 22 | Old shrub roses , particularly centifolias , enjoy clay , but flower only once a season . |
| 23 | By 1913–14 , over £25,000 was being given away in this manner and in return the Central Office agents were able to ensure the appointment of suitable constituency agents and the choice of good candidate The outlay constituted only about a tenth of the whole of the local parties " expenditure , but a much higher proportion of the expenditure of the backward parties most in need of reform . |
| 24 | Packed away on dusty dark shelves weights and measures used by council trading standards officers , miniature fairground memorabilia made by a keen amateur craftsman from Oxford , and discovered only yesterday a crescent shaped match box . |
| 25 | You can set certain programs in your autoexec.bat file to run only once a day , every 4 hours , every week or every 3 minutes , in fact any combination of time at all . |
| 26 | In France the same consciousness that an increasing proportion of international relations now lay completely outside the scope of traditional diplomacy was reflected in the fact that of the country 's entire delegation to the Versailles peace conference the ministry of foreign affairs provided only about a quarter . |
| 27 | It was found that this was not the case , generally homework was set only once a fortnight . |
| 28 | At second interview however they said it was no problem to them to visit her , and that they now go only once a week , and ‘ do not mind carrying on ’ . |
| 29 | And extraordinary tasks , like cleaning every dish in the kitchen and pantry , she did only twice a year . |
| 30 | Those wanting to stay throughout the season do so , but they constitute only about a quarter of initial recruitments and come disproportionately from the category of " persons who work in the holiday Industry " and usually occupy the more skilled jobs . |